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author | tytso <tytso@46e75558-b442-0410-83ab-e6570fdeb8bf> | 2008-01-28 04:31:29 +0000 |
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committer | tytso <tytso@46e75558-b442-0410-83ab-e6570fdeb8bf> | 2008-01-28 04:31:29 +0000 |
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Update 1.40.5 release notes.
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diff --git a/htdocs/e2fsprogs-release.html b/htdocs/e2fsprogs-release.html index 1f76809a8..3c1c69c92 100644 --- a/htdocs/e2fsprogs-release.html +++ b/htdocs/e2fsprogs-release.html @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ <H2>Release notes for the e2fsprogs package</H2> <UL> +<LI><A HREF="#1.40.5">E2fsprogs 1.40.5 (January 27, 2008)</A> <LI><A HREF="#1.40.4">E2fsprogs 1.40.4 (December 31, 2007)</A> <LI><A HREF="#1.40.3">E2fsprogs 1.40.3 (December 5, 2007)</A> <LI><A HREF="#1.40.2">E2fsprogs 1.40.2 (July 12, 2007)</A> @@ -75,6 +76,92 @@ <LI><A HREF="#1.02">E2fsprogs 1.02 (January 16, 1996)</A> </UL> +<H2><A NAME="1.40.5">E2fsprogs 1.40.5 (January 27, 2008)</A></H2> + +<P>Fix a potential overflow big in e2image if the device name is too +long.</P> + +<P>Mke2fs will now create new filesystems with 256 byte inodes and the +ext_attr feature flag by default. This allows for much better future +compatibity with ext4 and speeds up extended attributes even on ext3 +filesystems.</P> + +<P>Teach e2fsck to ignore certain "safe" filesystem features which are +set automatically by the kernel. Having the kernel set features +automagically behind the user's back is a bad idea, and we should try +to break the kernel of this habit, especially for the newer ext4 +feature flags. But for now, we will try to avoid needless full checks +which can annoy users who are doing fresh installs.</P> + +<P>Add support in tune2fs and mke2fs for making a filesystem as being "ok +to be used with test kernel code". This will be needed for using test +filesystems with the latest ext4 kernel code.</P> + +<P>Change e2fsck -fD so that it sorts non-htree directories by inode +numbers instead of by name, since that optimizes performances much +more significantly. (Addresses-Sourceforge-Feature-Request: #532439)</P> + +<P>If e2image fills the disk, fix it so it exits right away instead of +spewing large numbers of error messages. +(Addresses-Sourceforge-Feature-Request: #606508)</P> + +<P>If ftruncate64() is not available for resize2fs, let it use ftrucate() +instead, but have it check to see if the size would get truncated, and +skip calling ftruncate in that case.</P> + +<P>Add support for detecting HFS+ filesystems in the blkid library.</P> + +<P>Add supprt in the blkid library for ext4/ext4dev filesystems.</P> + +<P>Fix a bug in blkid where it could die on a floating point exception +when presented with a corrupt reiserfs image.</P> + +<P>Fix blkid's handling of ntfs UUID's so that leading zeros are printed +such that UUID string is a fixed length.</P> + +<P>Add sample python bindings for the uuid library to the contrib +directory. (Addresses-Sourceforge-Patches: #778817)</P> + +<P>Fix debugfs's 'lsdel' command so it uses ext2fs_block_iterate2 so it +will work with large files. (Addresses Sourceforge Feature Request: +#1257500 and Sourceforge Support Request: #1253511)</P> + +<P>Allow the debugfs 'undel' command to undelete an inode without linking +it to a specific destination directory, since this might require +allocating blocks that could overwrite some yet-to-be-recovered +deleted files. (Addresses-Sourceforge-Feature-Request: #967141)</P> + +<P>Update Swedish translations from the Translation Project.</P> + +<H3>Programmer's Notes:</H3> + +<P>Fix configure handling of --sbindir (which should rarely be used, but +someone did complain, so let's fix it). (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: +#498381)</P> + +<P>Updated e2fsprogs.spec file to include a new uuidd package</P> + +<P>Use pkg-config to determine where to find the devmapper library so we +can find out where it is located on different distributions.</P> + +<P>Fix Makefile race so that "make -j3 distclean" works correctly</P> + +<P>Fix portability problems on non-Linux/non-Hurd/non-Masix systems, +especially on MacOS X systems. (Addresses Sourceforge Bugs: #1861633, +#1819034, #1863819)</P> + +<P>Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages.</P> + +<P>Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for +details. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #459403, #459475, #459614)</P> + +<P>Remove the --enable-dynamic-static configure option, and build e2fsck +dynamically by default. If the user wants e2fsck.static, he/she will +need to build it via "make -C e2fsck e2fsck.static"</P> + +<P>Fix various build warnings due to missing prototypes. +(Addresses Sourceforge Patch: #1861663, #1861659)</P> + <H2><A NAME="1.40.4">E2fsprogs 1.40.4 (December 31, 2007)</A></H2> <P>Improve time-based UUID generation. A new daemon uuidd, is started |